Details
Contributor Farmer, Livermore & Co.,
Frost, Charles W., 1848-1939, copyright holder.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [J.C. Finn & Son trade cards] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1881
Date ca. 1881
Physical Description 2 prints : lithograph, chromolithograph ; 10 x 16 cm. (4 x 6.25 in.)
Description Series of trade cards for J.C. Finn & Sons paper hanging store at Tenth and Walnut Streets in Philadelphia depicting a girl applying adhesive to wallpaper strips and sloppily hanging them on the wall and flowering vines bordering a framed landscape view of a watermill.
Notes One print [1975.F.307] copyrighted by Chas. W. Frost 1881.
One print [1975.F.308] contains advertising text promoting "French tapestry papers" and "special designs for ceiling ornamentation" printed on verso.
Printers and engravers include Farmer, Livermore & Co.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject J.C. Finn & Son.
Wallpaper industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Flowers.
Girls.
Interiors.
Vases.
Wallpapers.
Water mills.
Genre Trade cards -- 1880-1890.
Lithographs -- 1880-1890.
Chromolithographs -- 1880-1890.
Printer Frost, Charles W., 1848-1939, copyright holder.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Finn [1975.F.307 & 308]
Accession number 1975.F.307
1975.F.308